Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-03
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there was a pause of a few seconds an,
then the voice of Captain Lloyd broke tn,
silence by remarking that all he wanted t,
know was when the contract had been let
so that the Council could form an opinion
as to whether there had been any unneces
sar.y delay, and he looked meaningly a
the little Knot of lobbyists when he added
that if there were n present who coult
| shed the calcium light Of their information h,
was sure the Council could have no objection
to listening to them. His views were con
Cured in by Mr.. Forbis who thought thai
if there had been no unavoidable delay anc
il the case stood as stated in the petition
he would favor extending the time. It wal
necessary to get at the facts relative tc
what was alleged in the petition so as to
find out whose fault the delay was attrib
utable to. Judge Loeber again addressed
the chair, repeating his previous remark
about the non-necessiJy of giving reasons
but taking it back in the next breath by
saying he couldn't see why, when people
have lived in Butte twelve or fifteen years
without a street railroad, they are
NOW so INPATIENT
as to be unable to exist twenty or thirty
days more without Ont. He asked that
the gentlemen representing the road be
allowed the privilege of addressing the
Council and explaining what they could.
The Mayor turned his benignant smile on
the delegation and Mr.. Dawson nudged
Mr.. Davis, who came forward to the
Council table and addressed the assembled
municipal wisdom. Mr.. Davis is a young
a but he is earnest if he is a little
nervous. He said he appeared as the
representative of Bennett Brothers to give
the facts in the matter so that the Council
could judge if his principals had neglected
their duty or simply been unfortunate.
The franchise was granted by the Council
May 9. The day after, Willard Bennett
wrote to Tacoma, Washington Territory,
where a similar enterprise was on foot, to
learn it there was there q man competent
to go East and inspect the various systems
in use in the various cities of the United
States and arrive at a trustworthy con
clusion upon the best system suitable for
Butte. Mr.. Davis then enlarged upon the
necessity OF having united in the person of
this individual q
COMBINATION OF QUALITIES
not readily obtainable in the ordinary en-
gineer. The Benefits learned that in the
person of MI. Bean, the engineer in charge
of construction of the Tacoma street rail-
way, such a combination of qualities ex-
listed. The result was the selection of Mr..
Bean; his presence in Butte to make a sur
vey of the requirements of the proposed
street railroad here on the 7th of June.
Two days supplied Mr.. Bean with the nee.
essary data and on the 9th of Juneh he took
hSc dam ~f,nr foa thu oo~%-oo III k-a.k ~
road intelligence with instructions from the
BENEFITS and was engaged until
the middle of July in travelling
from city to city examining into
the systems in use to find the one best
adapted to the needs of this exacting city.
Four days after his return he made hie re-
port giving his conclusions and the results
he had arrived at, which have been pub.
lished in the columns OF The MINER. As
o as the report was made kilograms
were at once sent to the leading firms en-
gagged in street-rail manufacture to obtain
on rails limiting the several
to their capacity to furnish the
order within ten days after receiving it.
H ORDER WAS PLACED
With the firm of Jones Laughlin, of Pitts
burg. This brought operations up to the
3Oth of August. Mr.. Davis enlarged upon
5he fact that no time had been lost in COM
by such slow process as letter
but that his employers
we're lavish in the !use OF the
Union wires. The rails
eft Pittsburg on the 8th of August. The
Message ordering the rails at the same
line ordered the fixtures to put them to-
Two cars were shipped that day
md three the day following. After q rea.
,onahle time for the arrival of the rails had
and they not arriving, Mr..
went to Mr.. Baldwin
nd asked him to look after the
hipments. Mr.. Davis then recounted the